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The Soldier’s Crusade

No, not a single drawing of the characters today – just background story from the Soldier again. Yes, the Australians were a little rowdy in Egypt. Caused a little bit of havoc when they wandered through Cairo. Discipline was rather loose and respect for authority almost non-existent for any foreign officer, with a few notable exceptions.

Our government also refused to allow our soldiers (all volunteers) to face British and Allied justice in the form of firing squads, so this probably gave them a greater sense of invulnerability when telling the local Pommy officers in their fancy clothes and neat uniforms where to go and what to do with themselves once they got there!!

Kinda split on this one as well. It is traditional for the military to take charge of justice for their own. On the other hand, if you’re visiting a different country, you have to respect their laws and customs.

Wacko, that’s how things are different now. Back then, there were reasons countries didn’t like calling on allies to help with their military affairs. This irrelevance for local icons was a big one.

There was one time I blew my temper and it was in defense of the aussies. I recently talked to a young punk who stated the aussies were NOT involved in WW2 and had no point in it.

I was told he woke up 2 days later.

My grandpa had told me often how his entire company was saved by aussies who were sent to pull them out a bad situation against germans. If them aussies had not come as hard as they had, my grandpa would have been killed or captured.